Here's a great fact: of the 14,783 place-names recorded in the Domesday Book, only 1,219 no longer exist. That's an impressive survival! (Hall, 2012 Palmer, 2007)
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Replying to @katemond @caitlinrgreen
Is there any geographical bias to those that have disappeared?
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Replying to @CSharp520917 @caitlinrgreen
Not that I've seen mentioned. I believe that it's often smaller settlements - perhaps because fewer people knew the name
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Replying to @katemond @caitlinrgreen
Thanks - I wondered if there might be any areas that had been depopulated or cleared by landed interests
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Replying to @CSharp520917 @katemond
There's a great discussion of the evidence base here, fwiw :)https://www.academia.edu/2977260/The_Instability_of_Place-Names_in_Anglo-Saxon_England_and_Early_Medieval_Wales_and_the_Loss_of_Roman_Toponymy …
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @CSharp520917
That's exactly what I'm reading, in fact!
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Replying to @katemond @CSharp520917
It's a fascinating essay, isn't it! Nice to have someone addressing some of the place-name studies objections to the historical/archaeological rejection of post-Roman population replacement!
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @CSharp520917
We can always trust Alaric! I've always found the contrast between the comparatively high Celtic/British survival in PNs and the tiny survival in language striking, but haven't really seen proper discussion of what the PN evidence means before.
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Replying to @katemond @CSharp520917
Yes! It was definitely needed for the PN evidence, but Alaric's model now makes the language evidence stand out even more dramatically...!
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @CSharp520917
I do like his Cornish chronology - the data matches the political shift so neatly.
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It really does! I also like his points on the Welsh evidence; esp noteworthy for me was how we have only 1–2% of 6thC & earlier names surviving there too...!
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